Dell to boost China spend to $100B over a decade

[ChromeFoundry]

Source: AP

4 hours ago

SEATTLE — Dell Inc. is making a $100 billion bet that China will remain one of the fastest-growing markets for personal computers over the next decade.

Dell said Thursday it plans to open a manufacturing, sales and service center in Chengdu in 2011 that could eventually employ more than 3,000 workers. The new operations center is a response to rapid growth in business in Western China, Dell said.

China has been courting foreign investors for projects in its western regions as a matter of policy for more than a decade. Dell would not say what sort of incentives it was offered to construct new facilities in Chengdu.

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell already employs about 6,000 people in China, spread among manufacturing plants and other operations in the southeastern city of Xiamen, a product design and engineering center in Shanghai and a service center in Dalian, a city east of Beijing. It also contracts with electronics manufacturers in the country.

Over the next decade, the company said it expects to spend about $100 billion on China operations. It spent $23 billion in China in 2009.



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[givemebackmycountry]

1. How much they spending here?

Just askin'

[skoalyman]

2. weird GE's hiring the same number in India

and now dell :puke:

[OhioChick]

4. I noticed that, as well...

Sickening.

[Skittles]

3. DISGUSTING

:thumbsdown:

[mackerel]

5. Pathetic

[David__77]

6. China will be the world's largest market.

It is a unitary state with the largest population, the economy of which is growing by leaps and bounds. It seeks war with no one, has not one military base abroad, and respect the sovereignty of other states. I think the "peaceful rise" of China is a good thing for all humanity.

[pampango]

9. Indeed. And this is a case of 'make it where you sell it' "to support rapid growth in business in

Western China."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXM0lrD8iMkdlYMtaOTmLocNxUHgD9I99JNO0

NEW DIGS: Dell Inc. says it plans to open a manufacturing, sales and service center in Chengdu in 2011 to support rapid growth in business in Western China. The Chengdu facilities could eventually employ more than 3,000 workers.

BIGGER BUSINESS: Dell already has about 6,000 workers in China. The country is Dell's second-largest source of revenue, after the U.S., and demand for PCs is growing.

MORE MONEY: The PC maker says it expects to spend about $100 billion on China operations over the next decade. It spent $23 billion in China in 2009.

[golfguru]

7. Whatever happened to stopping export of jobs and capital?

[dmosh42]

8. And they continue with tax breaks for that? n/t